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	Network society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term Network Society was coined by Jan van Dijk in his Dutch book 'De Netwerkmaatschappij' (1991) -translation: 'The Network Society' (1999, 2006)- and by Manuel Castells in the first part of his trilogy 'The Information Age' (1996).
		In 1978 James Martin used the related term 'The Wired Society' indicating a society that is connected by mass- and telecommunication networks.
		Van Dijk defines the network society as a society in which a combination of social and media networks shapes its prime mode of organization and most important structures at all levels (individual, organizational and societal).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Network_society (358 words)

	Realigning to a Network Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The objective is to create a regional network society to which all citizens can be given a ticket of admission at the same time as the economic and financial potential is utilised optimally.
		A strategy is to be prepared for Ørestaden as a network society based on the large-scale initiatives which have already been planned in the area, but with greater speed, more focus and a clearer strategic cohesion.
		A report is to be prepared on convergence in the network society which is based on the breakdown of the borders between the telecommunications, IT and media sectors.
	www.fsk.dk /cgi-bin/doc-show.cgi?doc_id=20746 (5733 words)

	The Chronicle - Manuel Castells
		This network logic or form of organization induces a social determination at a higher level, one that was unknown before.
		Castells is treating networks on a higher level of abstraction (the structure per se) and social reality (mainly the macro-sphere) than the classical empirical network approach which deals with single individuals linked in dyads and cliques and being stars or isolates..
		According to the author the 'logic' of the network society is pervading all spheres of social, economic and cultural life.
	www.thechronicle.demon.co.uk /archive/castells.htm (4413 words)

	Manuel Castells (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		In the Network Society a fundamental form of social domination is the prevalence of the logic of the space of flows over the space of places and induces a metropolitan dualism and a form of social/territorial exclusion which bypasses and marginalises people and places.
		Cosmopolitan democracy is needed to regulate the network society and the network state.
		Network Society opens up a new realm of contradictions and conflicts as people around the world refuse to become shadows of global flows and begin to project their dreams, and sometimes their nightmares into the light of new history making.
	www.tidec.org /geovisions/Castells.html (1125 words)

	Read about Category:Human societies at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Category:Human societies and learn about ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		A society is a group of people who form a semi-closed system, in which most interactions are with other individuals belonging to the group.
		A society is a network of relationships between people.
		Societies are the main subject of study of the social sciences.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Category:Human_societies (115 words)

	The Orion Grassroots Network
		The Orion Grassroots Network is the fastest-growing network of environmental and community organizations in North America.
		Network member organizations are recognized in their communities as leaders in the fields of conservation, restoration, education, democracy, justice, health, and economics.
		The Orion Grassroots Network connects the full diversity of groups involved in social and environmental movements, and occasionally engages them in coordinated campaigns on regional, national, and global issues, such as the Earth Charter and Precautionary Principle.
	www.oriononline.org /pages/ogn/index.cfm (334 words)

	Conversation with Manuel Castells, p. 5 of 6
		I started from the technology side, the network side, and then I found that part of the story about the transformation of power did not correspond to that logic, but to the logic of resisting the domination of values implemented through these very effective networks and trying to provide alternative meaning.
		Looking at what happens on the ground, seeing that the reaction to these networks can be a reassertion or a redefinition of identity, helps you understand the complexity of what's actually going on in the world.
		In a so-called information society, minds are not only the most important economic asset -- companies with minds make money; companies with money and no minds lose the money -- it's the same thing in everything.
	globetrotter.berkeley.edu /people/Castells/castells-con5.html (2014 words)

	INSN - International Nanotechnology and Society Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The International Nanotechnology and Society Network (INSN) held its inaugural meeting January 26-28, 2005 in Tempe, Arizona, USA on the campus of Arizona State University.
		In order for this network of individuals and institutions to be beneficial, it is essential that they meet on a periodic basis, which can be accomplished independently or by “piggy-backing” onto related meetings.
		Network members should consider the inclusion of other INSN members in activities they are planning as well.
	nanoandsociety.com /meetings/report.htm (958 words)

	Amazon.com: The Rise of the Network Society: Books: Manuel Castells (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		With the growing level networks and nodes for transmitting information and imaginations, people are beginning to claim increasingly specific identities that are difficult to share with others, which is sometimes related to the resurgence of xenophobia.
		Castells' network society is based on the assumption that "development" is determined by productivity and productivity is determined by the number of consumable goods that are created with labor and matter.
		This volume focuses mainly on the economic feature of the network society: informationalization and globalization; the transformation of the enterprise; the flexibility in labor market; interactive media; transformation of space (or, in Giddens¡¯ term, time-space distanciation).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0631221409?v=glance (2657 words)

	Vancouver Richmond Mental Health Network Society
		The Network offers peer support, referral and information to the public and to members who are navigating their way through the mental health system and along the journey of their own recovery.
		The Network publishes a quarterly news journal that focuses on issues of importance to people who have been diagnosed with a mental illness.
		The Network’s resource library is filled with books, tapes and videos addressing a variety of different themes relevant to people who have been labelled with a diagnosis of mental illness.
	www.vcn.bc.ca /vrmhn (1262 words)

	Manuel Castells
		The first of two trends important in understanding the Network Society is a worldwide crisis of political legitimacy, caused by a lack of trust in the political class.
		This has made society more binary, as is the nature of digital information; you are either in or you are out of a network, with very little scope for ambiguity.
		The question I think he was posing is, for instance, whether the Network Society is more efficient and achieving its goals, and so the power at the centre of the network is augmented (alternatively, due to easier networking does decision making become less centralised?).
	www.culturewars.org.uk /2004-01/castells.htm (1809 words)

	SSRC :: Information Technology and International Cooperation Program :: IT & Civil Society
		In conjunction with this effort, we have organized a research network in order to expand on the knowledge and analysis presented in the report.
		The network is engaged in writing papers, discussion and collaborative projects related to IT governance.
		In December 2003, the research networks met in Geneva, Switzerland at a workshop on IT Governance and the Politics of Civil Society, which followed the World Summit on Information Society.
	www.ssrc.org /programs/itic/it_civil_society (314 words)

	The Centre for Personal Sovereignty
		The primary implication of the rise of Personal Sovereignty is the development of the "Network Society" political movement, the fundamental political system of the twenty-first century.
		A Network Society maximizes market efficiencies, freedom, and happiness for a greater number of people than earlier political systems such as the republic, democracy, theocracy, oligarchy, monarchy, dictatorship or communism.
		In a future age where most of the crude burdens of society are removed from individuals, we will be free to concentrate on this higher level need for self-understanding and actualization.
	www.personalsovereignty.org /persov.html (765 words)

	ITworld.com - CEATEC: Ubiquitous network society 'around the corner'
		Japanese companies can provide and Japanese society already has what he called the three key foundations to build the ubiquitous society: the network infrastructure; the terminal equipment technology, and the services, although, he admitted that new and more compelling content were badly needed to fill the networked society of 2010.
		IC (integrated circuit) tags will become the hidden network fabric to wirelessly link objects as diverse as vegetables bought in the supermarket to what has been thrown in the garbage, he said.
		People will be able to meet and interact in new ways, and networked technology will allow people to experience things they can't now, so that reality will be something we can create, rather than people just being consumers who have content and programs pushed at them, he said.
	www.itworld.com /Net/041005ubiquitousnetwork/pfindex.html (699 words)

	The Social Life of Issues 6
		One of the questions we may pursue is the extent to which civil society organizations contribute to socio-political globalization by participating in processes of 'issue-fication'.
		Watching civil society network activity on the Web, we ask to what extent such actors engage in 'issue-networking' efforts, configuring into debate-networks, protest-networks, programme-networks and scandal-networks, and in so doing, (re)define issues on (inter)governmental and media agenda's.
		We believe there may be a case for undertaking such interventions, that are currently identifiable after employing techniques and analysis of the current network effects of civil society as well as intergovernmental politics, in manners to be explored at the workshop.
	www.govcom.org /gco_projects/workshops/6/presentation (375 words)

	NETWORK SOCIETY
		We live in a "network society" (Manuel Castells).
		There is an old border that exists between the elites and the have-nots and the haves are situated at the divide, within complex political and cultural institutions.
		The UN meeting would have no veto powers on discussion of the recommendations and would be attended by local NGOs from all over the globe.
	gtrc911.quaker.org /networksociety.htm (536 words)

	Alberta Environmental Network \| Environmental information from Alberta and beyond
		The Edmonton Bicycle Commuters’ Society (EBC) is seeking a Bicycle Mechanic/Recycler.
		The Edmonton Bicycle Commuters’ Society (EBC) is seeking an Event and Volunteer Coordinator.
		EBC is a non-profit society with a volunteer Board of Directors.
	www.aenweb.ca /index.php (953 words)

	The Rise of The Network Society - Book Information
		This book, the first in Castells' ground-breaking trilogy, is an account of the economic and social dynamics of the new age of information.
		Based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, it aims to formulate a systematic theory of the information society which takes account of the fundamental effects of information technology on the contemporary world.
		The Network Enterprise: The Culture, Institutions, and Organizations of The Informational Economy.
	www.blackwellpublishing.com /book.asp?ref=0631221409 (281 words)

	The EnviroLink Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The EnviroLink Network is a non-profit organization founded in 1991.
		The EnviroLink Network is a non-profit organization which has been providing access to thousands of online environmental resources since 1991.
		In partnership with LocalHarvest.org, the EnviroLink Network has created interactive maps of all of the US-based resources in its database.
	www.envirolink.org (249 words)

	Project Internet Catalonia - The Network Society... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		We are dealing, then, with an x-ray of the entire Catalan society in its differential relationship to the organisational methods and social relationship characteristics of the new technological and cultural context of the network society.
		The survey by questionnaire, the codification of the questionnaires and the initial statistical processing were carried out by a team from the Institut d'Estudis Metropolitans i Regionals de Barcelona [Institute of Metropolitan and Regional Studies of Barcelona] on the basis of a questionnaire created by IN3 researchers.
		The Catalan population in the Network Society: A vision of generations
	www.uoc.edu /in3/pic/eng/pic1.html (379 words)

	Open Society Institute and Soros Foundation Network
		The Open Society Institute cohosted a panel discussion and reception to mark the publication of Robert Sherrill’s First Amendment Felon: The Story of Frank Wilkinson, His 132,000-Page FBI File, and His Epic Fight for Civil Rights and Liberties.
		At this OSI-sponsored event, the director of the Centre for Rights Education and Awareness in Nairobi, Kenya, spoke about her organization's efforts to protect women's sexual and reproductive rights, often violated as a result of the continued practice of dowries.
		Founder and chairman of the Open Society Institute and Soros foundations network.
	www.soros.org (360 words)

	The Vedanta Society Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Vedanta Society is a community of spiritual seekers who learn and practice Vedanta (literally, veda + anta), meaning the essence of the Vedas.
		Although popularly identified with the basic scripture of the Hindus, Vedas are really neither “books” nor essentially “Hindu.” They are “the accumulated treasury of spiritual laws” discovered by enlightened beings.
		Hosted by the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society, Boston, USA.
	www.vedantasociety.net (210 words)

	Ross Mayfield's Weblog
		Tocqueville's point resonates today, not just in our increased understanding of social networks, but if there were Optimist Clubs around the world we may have a little more peace.
		But although we are talking a blue streak about small worlds, scale-free networks, connectors, social internetworking, and the strength of weak ties, I have a feeling we're still mostly preaching to the choir -- namely, each other...
		The tools and perception of networks will grow, but this fundamentally about the building of a network society.
	radio.weblogs.com /0114726/2003/01/10.html (999 words)

	Forest Products Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Supporting information exchange on the use of wood and wood-fiber resources, the Forest Products Society (FPS) provides its members and others in the forest industry a variety of publications and conference opportunities for furthering member research and goals.
		Through its sections and chapters and technical interest groups, FPS links an international network of scholars and industry professionals.
		Members of the Pacific Southwest Section, hosts of the Forest Products Society 60th International Convention, invite you to join them in Newport Beach, California, June 25–28, 2006.
	www.forestprod.org (132 words)

	O'Reilly Network -- Internet Society Panel on Business Method Patents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		On Oct. 3, the Washington D.C. Chapter of the Internet Society hosted a panel on patents and the Internet at one of its regular meetings.
		Now, I'm being unfairly extreme, but I want to make the point that the patent examiners in the office are not necessarily always well-versed in the history of some of the new technologies, particularly software, because software patents were a very recent entree into the arena of things that have been patented.
		All trademarks and registered trademarks appearing on the O'Reilly Network are the property of their respective owners.
	www.oreillynet.com /pub/a/policy/2000/10/23/isoc.html (654 words)

	INSN - International Nanotechnology and Society Network
		Regulating biotechnology and nanotechnology in Canada: A post-normal science approach for inclusion of the fourth helix.
		Technology Assessment as Part of the Co-Evolution of Nanotechnology and Society: the Thrust of the TA Program in NanoNed.
		Marburg, Germany: Paper presented at the conference on Nanotechnology in Science, Economy and Society.
	www.nanoandsociety.com /ourlibrary (695 words)

	Berkeley Center for the Information Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The Berkeley Center for the Information Society is a research center focused on the social impact of the information technology revolution and is the newest research center at ICSI.
		Key areas include: (1) challenges of the global information society and different models of responding to it; (2) the use of IT in social movements; and (3) enhancing equal social opportunities with IT.
		The goal of the Berkeley Center for the information Society is to develop an interesting network of interaction between the top academic, business and civil society people, who share an interest in the social good of the information age.
	www.icsi.berkeley.edu /BCIS (326 words)

	Women's Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa co-convened a regional roundtable meeting to explore the challenges to the women's movement in the Southern African Development Community.
		The Network Women's Program supports efforts to build Romani women’s leadership and to increase Romani women’s access to Soros network resources and to international legislative bodies, funders, and activities related to Roma and women.
		The Network Women’s Program and participating Soros foundations or institutional partners in former Soviet countries and Mongolia support the development of documentary films on women’s human rights issues, as well as educational programs for journalists to raise gender awareness in mainstream media.
	www.soros.org /women (306 words)

	The Cancer Survivors Network, supplying information, resources, chat, stories, discussion forums and support for cancer ...
		The Cancer Survivors Network, supplying information, resources, chat, stories, discussion forums and support for cancer survivors and caregivers.
		If you're considering treatment for any kind of cancer, register for your free cancer treatment decision tools, brought to you by the American Cancer Society and NexCura.
		Caregiving: A Step-by-Step Resource for Caring for the Cancer Patient at Home, an American Cancer Society publication, was written by Peter Houts and Julia A. Bucher for caregivers.
	www.acscsn.org (1450 words)

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